Liz Nielsen in her studio, Newburgh, NY.
Liz Nielsen (b. 1975 in Ashland, WI) received her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL; her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, and her Bachelor of Arts from Seattle University, Seattle, WA.
Recent solo exhibitions include "She LOVES me...," SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC (forthcoming); "Romanticist," Danziger Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Apparitions,” Black Box Projects, London, United Kingdom; “Electric Romance,” 12.26 Gallery, Dallas, TX; “Rolling Aura,” David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, CO; “Liz Nielsen: Forcefield” (presented by Strongroom), The Dutch Reformed Church, Newburgh, NY; “I’d Like to Imagine You’re in a Place Like This,” Over the Influence, Los Angeles, CA; “Spooky Action,” Art Austerlitz, Austerlitz, NY; “Triangle Moon,” SOCO Gallery, Charlotte, NC; “Small,” Black Box Projects, London, United Kingdom; and “Interdimensional Landscapes,” Landskrona Foto, Landskrona, Sweden.
Recent group exhibitions include the Terrain Biennial, Newburgh, NY; “Clairvoyance,” SHRINE, New York, NY; “Noise for Now x Upstate Art Weekend: Benefit Auction & Exhibition,” YWCA Ulster County, Kingston, NY; “Sense of Place,” Chautauqua Visual Arts, Chautauqua, NY; “Liz Nielsen & Dávid Biró: Jet Lag,” Horizont Gallery, Budapest, Hungary; “Midi de l’Art: The Borders,” Galerie MOB-ART Studio, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg; “300 Days of Sun,” Hexton Gallery, Aspen, CO; “Why I Make Art” (curated by Brian Alfred), Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; “Who Really Cares?” (curated by Helen Toomer), Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY; “Time Lapse,” Fridman Gallery, Beacon, NY; and “Signs of Spring,” Black Box Projects, London, United Kingdom.
She is the recipient of numerous awards including a residency at the McColl Center for Arts + Innovation, Charlotte, NC; Finalist, Meijburg Art Prize, Unseen Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Residency, Budapest Art Factory, Budapest, Hungary; Orange County Arts Council Relocation Grant, Newburgh, NY, and the CAAP Grant, Chicago, IL.
Nielsen lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Newburgh, NY.
Liz Nielsen is featured in Artsy's feature on contemporary abstract photographers.
Liz Nielsen is on view in Sense of Place at the Strohl Art Center at the Chautauqua Institution.
Liz Nielsen's exhibition Edge of Forever is featured by Collector Daily
Liz Nielsen's exhibition 'Edge of Forever' is featured in The Wall Street Journal
Forcefield, a large-scale, site-specific installlation, is on view at Newburgh's Dutch Reformed Church from sunset to midnight every night through 30 September 2022.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – MILES McENERY GALLERY is delighted to announce representation of Liz Nielsen.
Liz Nielsen at Over the Influence Los Angeles
"The twenty monumental photograms comprising Liz Nielsen’s show here, “I’d Like to Imagine You’re in a Place Like This,” are like mosaics of liquefied jewels. The artist refers to them as “light paintings,” and her early training in painting and printmaking certainly shines through."
